🌅🌅 Matriarchal Poem: Ruan Ling Yu 阮玲玉 (1910-35) on the Sweet and Sour "Center Stage" 🌅🌅
🌅🌅Sacrificing Spirit on International Woman's Day 🌅🌅
🌅🌅Poem : The Blinding Luminosity of Fame and Mis-Fortune 🌅🌅
why?
being talented, . .
seeing a new vision about womanhood, . .
becoming thy greatest female Chinese film star of her day, . .
why?
standing tall, smiling as thy Goddess of Cinema, . . .
enjoying thy sacred fruits of her stardom, . . .
loving her new wealth, her good looks, . .
why?
finding one day, the press attacking her, . .
being accused of doing what all male stars do,
having love affairs, starting to become confused, . . .
why?
dying from such patriarchal accusations, . .
fighting against thy press, slowly moment my moment,
becoming sadder, being more depressed, . . .
being imprisoned by stereotypical views , . .
why?. . .
feeling enchained by hypocritical standards for women, . .
being obedient, raising many kids, cooking for thy man, . . .
protesting boldy, no, no, no. . . .
dying on thy International Woman's Day, . .
why?
committing suicide, ending her short life, . . .
saying that all women are equal to all men, . . .
why?
dying young, with the largest of funerals, especially, women
crying, mourning, realizing that they . .
being too critical of thy Goddess, . .
why?
Ruan Ling Yu, 阮玲玉 . . .
. . . .rest in peace . . . .
why?
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SAMURAI SAM AND WILD DRAGONS
DR. WAYNE STEIN Ted Talk Speaker, Amazon Author, Asian Gothic Scholar; Yoga Certified, Black Belts. Writer Program Admin, Writing Center Director, Cancer Survivor, Korean Born , Raised in Japan and Italy, grew up In Los Angeles.
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Oh wow, what a life story! I'm sorry she felt she had no other way out, but that type of misogyny was common for many societies at the time, unfortunately.
Thank you Sandy,
So much beauty and sorrow intertwined here.
Good work on this eulogy of a powerful woman.
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Rest in Peace.